How Fast Can You Go - A Sim­ple Tip To In­crease Pro­duc­tiv­ity 30% In 1 Day

210 words. In the spirit of pro­duc­tiv­ity, to­day’s tip is short and to the point.

A very com­mon pro­duc­tiv­ity tip is to block a cer­tain amount of time for a given task or project.

• For ex­am­ple, you’d block 3 hours of your work day to con­tinue writ­ing your e-book.

While it works, it does­n’t pre­vent the slow­ing down of pro­duc­tiv­ity that nat­u­rally oc­curs while work­ing on a spe­cific task.

For most peo­ple the pro­duc­tiv­ity de­cline works like this:

1. When you start work­ing you’re pretty fast.
2. Af­ter some time, you find you’re slow­ing down.
3. You’d take a short break and con­tinue working.
4. But still, you’re not as fast as you were when you started.

Try some­thing new instead.

1. Start work­ing on the given task. Again, you’ll start fast.
2. Work un­til you feel you’re slow­ing down.
3. Take a short break.
4. Af­ter the break start work­ing on some­thing else!
   To your sur­prise you’ll be su­per-fast again - un­til step 2 kicks in again. 

Sum­mary:

• Work on each task only as long as you main­tain your ini­tial max­i­mum speed.
• When slow­ing down switch to a com­pletely dif­fer­ent task.

Give it a few days and de­cide based on your ex­pe­ri­ence and results.